Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-28
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a correspondent Of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat writes from Salt Lake
City, under date OF August 18th, q fol.
lows: There are plenty Of pretty girls
hero. They are Mormon girls, too.
Some Of them are married. A few are
in polyeamy, and have husbands old
enough to be their great grandfathers -
White-haired, long bearded, and roand-
shouldered lords and matters who have
eovenanted to love, honor, and cherish
. half dozen wives at time. There
are others who are married to
young Mormon gentlemen and who
win not listen to the slight
est suggestion Of polygamy. Their
husbands win say they know and be-
lieve that the principle is right, but oil
the same one wife is enough for them.
They say this because they are aware
that il they wanted TO take another
wife the pretty companion they now
have would tear ont their hair by the
roots. wasintroduced the other night
to one OF Brigham Young's daughters.
She is charming brunette, educated
and accomplished, and, although Nor
mon as far as religious convictions
are concerned, she is not ignorant
OF the fact that she had sixteen
mothers when her delightful old papa
died, and she does not believe there
was anything wrong in this plurality of
mothers. Yet she viii not let her hus-
band even talk Of polygamy. You
should see her dark eyes snap and the
determined expression that is forced
into her red lips when anybody sug-
gests that her Charley may any of these
fine days bring home
A SECOND MRS. WIPE.
"Just let him try it once" she re-
marked, patting small foot on the
floor "just let him bring her, and if
don't furnish hin and her with the
biggest circus they ever saw, then my
name isn't what it is, that's all"
And her husband is the son of q
Mormon bishop, too. The old man
has seven wives and thirty-six children,
and he has served a term in the Utah
penitentiary for unlawful cohabitatio1
under the Edmunds- Tucker act. Brig
hams daughter is not the only young
wife here wio is so stubbornly opposed
topolygamy. You hear from every side
statements concerning young women re-
lated to all sorts of Mormon dignita-
ries who make j. a condition when they
accept the husband that these latter
must renounce, at least as far as its
practice is concerned, the doctrine
Of plural marriage. And You hear
Mormon girls of manageable age de-
nounce the system. Ii they belong to
poly gamic families they do not hesitate
TO speak of the misery and sorrow that
dwell in two and three and four-wife
homes. They denounce the system,
and many OF them, rather than run the
chance of being dragged into polyga-
my, seek their beaus and lovers
among the Gentle young men of TIE
community. L had talk to-day With
two young ladies Of this kind, good
looking blonde and heart winning
brunette. One is eighteen, the other
not over twenty. Both are English
girls, and have Mormon parents. They
say their prayers morning and night,
as is the custom in all Mormon fami-
lies, and until recently neither was out
OF her house after 8 o'clock at night.
They believe in their Church, but no.
in polygamy, and one of them has two
brothers, both Mormons, who, she
says, would kill her if she became the
second or third wife Of any man. L
opened the conversation by asking
them, in jest,
WHY THEY DIDN'T GET MARRIED.
"Oh, it isn't because we haven't had
chances" said one of them, half sauci-
". "When l came here, four years
ago, / wasn't in the town two weeks
before had over twenty offers of mar
riage, and some of them from high-up
gentlemen, too, with plenty of means. "
"And why didn't you hook on to
one of them?" asked.
because / didn't want to go into
polygamy," she answered. "They
were all men who had wives, and some
OF them were old ezough to be SHOT
/ wouldn't marry i'll polygamy not for
all the world. My mother wouldn't let
me DO it, either"
"Aren't your people good Nor
mons?"
"Oh, yes. sir the strictest kind of
Mormons. But we came from England,
where there isn't any such thing in the
Mormon Church as polygamy. We hear
of it over there, and there is sometimes
talk of a missionary elder having more
than one wife, but he's got to be mighty
slick and quiet about them or he'll get
himself into trouble. We have to come
TO Utah to see what polygamy is, and
we think it is perfectly terrible. l have
seen all | want of it. and neither king
ror prophet nor anybody else could
change my mind in favor of it.
"What does your mother think OF
it?"
"Ob, she and father think polygamy
is all right, and that it was revealed by
God to the Prophet Joseph, but father
dare not take another wife if he wanted
70. and he don't want to, as he thinks
one wife IS as many as he can do JUS
tice to. have, time and again. heard
mother say that il father married Sc
cond wife she would kill both of them.
1t is an awful thing to imagine the feel
ings of one woman when she
is obliged 10 welcome another wo-
man INTO her house and share hus-
band and home with her. Nobody can
tell what it is unless they have been
into such homes and listened to the sto-
ries Of the grieving. heart broken wives.
tell you these polygamists do great
deal OF blowing about themselves and
about how good they are to one another,
but you should see the manner in
which they treat their wives and chill
dren-meanness isn't name for it.
PURSUED BY poLyGAsusTs.
"Have many polygamists asked for
your hand? 2"
eyes, lots OF them. / hadn't been
in Salt Lake week when a Mormon
gentleman called at the house and
e,ked father if he might marry me.
Father said: You'll have to get her